World History to 1600 Womack Exam 3

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.

1492

By the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was a vast multiethnic and multireligious state of some ______________ inhabitants.

15 million

In many places, the ____________-mile Incan road network still exists today.

25,000

Tenochtitlaìn was:

A city established on one of the islands in the Valley of Mexico

To its neighbors, the Zagwe kingdom was 'Ethiopia' or '_________', names rooted in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

Abyssinia

Neo-Confucianism holds that one cannot sit passively and wait for enlightenment, as the Buddhists do, but must __________.

Actively 'seek truth through facts'.

If a promising young man attained the rank of shengyuan, he was enabled to __________ and to draw a small stipend.

Attend a government-sponsored academy.

A mathematician and assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury-filled tubes to lay the groundwork for the first ___________.

Barometer

Serving as a model for subsequent kingdoms in the savanna of central Africa, the Luba kingdom survived until the arrival of __________ colonialism at the end of the nineteenth century.

Belgian

_________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516.

Charles V

The Kojiki and Nihongi were:

Chinese-style imperial histories

The Ottomans benefited from the trade of a new commodity, _____________, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen.

Coffee

________ Christianity, centered in Egypt, emphasizes the sole divine nature of Jesus.

Coptic

Coffeehouses allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __________, and exchange ideas.

Daily newspapers

With the coming of the Song dynasty, China would become a religious civilization in which people reemphasized the indigenous traditions of Confucianism and __________.

Daoism

When one of local chiefs centralized rule in 1137, the new kingdom of ________ unified the highlands and battled the Muslims in the lowlands on the Red Sea coast in the name of a Christian Crusade.

Ethiopia

'Nam Viet' was the local name for the Chinese 'Nanyue' ('___________'), as the Qin had called their new province.

Far South

"Renaissance" thinkers and artists considered their period a time of "rebirth" (the literal meaning of the word in the _______ language).

French

Because _________ universities and scientific academies refused to admit women, in contrast to their counterparts in other countries, the salon became a bastion of well-placed and respected female scholars.

French

The Tale of _________, credited to Murasaki Shikibu, is often considered the world's first novel.

Genji

The official Wang Anshi (1021-1086) proposed all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

Greatly increasing the number of bureaucratic positions to aid clan heads.

In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to __________.

India

Copernicus began his studies at the University of __________, the only eastern European school to offer courses in astronomy.

Krakow

After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of Pope _________.

Leo X

Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the Battle of _________ thanks to their superior naval tactics.

Lepanto

By 1400, Swahili city-states included all of the following except:

Limpopo

By the late 13th and early 14th centuries, native shipwrights and their teachers from Genoa teamed up in the port of _____________ to develop new ships suited to the stormy Atlantic.

Lisbon

Isaac Newton's ___________ Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences.

Mathematical

The Qutb, built next to Delhi's first mosque, is said to still be the world's largest _________.

Minaret

Sungbo's Eredo is a ___________ combination up to 70 feet deep/high and 100 miles long.

Moat and Rampart

In 1231, ________ forces laid siege to Kaesong, and perhaps 250,000 Koreans were deported as slave laborers after the city had fallen.

Mongol

In the course of his 14th-century journeys, Ibn Battuta passed through western Anatolia and Constantinople and was impressed by the rising power of the ____________.

Ottomans

After staying three months on the first Bahaman island he found, Christopher Columbus returned to Iberia with ________ and a small quantity of gold.

Seven captured Caribbean islanders

The Karagöz was a:

Shadow puppet theatre

______ means 'the way of the gods', and Japanese mythology recognized a staggering array of deities.

Shinto

The chief military official of Japan was called a _____________, and the office would become hereditary in the Tokugawa period (1603-1867).

Shogun

The Shehzade and Süleymaniye mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Edirne were designed by __________.

Sinan

In the Malian epic told about his life, Sundiata prevails over his enemies thanks to a discovery made by his ___________.

Sister

Growing to a city of 30,000 inhabitants by the seventh century, Wari enlarged its agricultural base through the expansion of __________.

Terrace Farming

A Mongol armada was smashed by a typhoon in 1281, known ever after by the Japanese as kamikaze, '_______'.

The divine wind

Debates on Neo-Confucianism in China centered on ___________.

The interpretations and approaches to understanding its core teachings.

Neo-Confucianism resulted from a synthetic social and political formation, a pattern in which:

The most durable opposing elements of two traditions merge into a compatible whole.

The stripes on the faces of some Ife figures are believed to distinguish one lineage from another or to represent:

The passage from youth to adulthood

Mongol armies had all of the following advantages over their opponents EXCEPT:

Their surveillance and intelligence networks within the Song bureaucracy.

Mansa Musa established the city of ________ as a center of learning, focusing on Islamic law but also offering courses in a wide variety of sciences

Timbuktu

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

Two months

A new Hindu state emerged in 1336 with the founding of the city of ___________, which was deemed fabulously wealthy by the first Portuguese traders in the sixteenth century.

Vijayanagar

All of the following are true of the use of quipu by the Incas except:

700 of them have been deciphered and translated

The most prominent of the small Maya states, Chichén Itzá in the northern lowlands, flourished from about ____________.

850 to 1000

The Korean language may be distantly related to the __________ family of languages, which include Turkish, Mongolian, and Manchu.

Altaic

Sikhism could be described in all of the following ways except:

An offshoot of Islam created by the prophet Muhammad's grandson.

It is possible that imperial propaganda machines in the Aztec and Inca Empires, similar to those of the __________ and Mongols in Eurasia, attempted to intimidate their enemies through tales of brutal treatment.

Assyrians

By 1368, a coalition led by Zhu Yuanzhang, who was both a soldier and a ____________, had driven the Mongols from their capital and proclaimed a new dynastic line, the Ming.

Buddhist Monk

A disk made of finely worked steatite was found in a third-century CE ___________ in central Japan, and similar objects have been found in China.

Burial mound

Aztec farmers constructed soil islands in Lake Texcoco called _________ and grew corn, beans, squash, and other vegetables on them.

Chinampas

In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________.

Chivalry

In Tiwanaku society, llamas were used as transportation animals and as a __________.

Food source

In many cases, the shoen, or clan estates, were ____________ because of their military contributions.

Given tax-exempt status

The chongjon system of Silla, begun in 722, mandated a(n):

Government-sponsored distribution of land.

One of Hongwu's first steps in reshaping the government was to create the ______________, a select group of officials who served as an advisory board to the emperor on all imperial matters.

Grand Secretariat

At its height between 1250 and 1505, the kingdom of __________ represents the culmination of the southern African kingdoms.

Great Zimbabwe

Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology, and literature, and based on the corpus of ___________ texts.

Greek and Roman

At the head of a cavalry force borrowed from a chiefdom in the Sahel, Sundiata defeated ancient Ghana in 1235 and founded the empire of Mali, with its capital on an upper Niger tributary in modern __________.

Guinea

The Temple of Literature in _________ was the first national academy for Confucian training in Vietnam, founded in 1076.

Hanoi

The northern sultanates, such as the regime of Ala-ud-din of the Tughluqs, supported their economies through __________.

Heavy taxation, including the jizya tax on non-Muslims

An expedition sent out the Portuguese king ___________ the Navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the North African coast in 1415.

Henry

The northernmost of Japan's four main islands is:

Hokkaido

Like the codes of chivalry current in Europe at the time, daimyo and samurai prided themselves on acting according to a strict system of ____________ called 'bushido'.

Honor and loyalty

Tang rulers opened diplomatic relations with __________, which in 645 announced the Taika (Great Reform), a wholesale adoption of Tang imperial institutions, record keeping, and Buddhism.

Japan

As a proponent of Copernican heliocentrism, Galileo seemed to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible's Book of ___________, in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day.

Joshua

The works of a handful of literate Japanese women such as Murasaki Shikibu were often written in:

Kana script

The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in _____________.

Madrid

In the eighth century, Tang armies experienced a series of defeats at the hands of all of the following except:

Mongols

Swahili cities were characterized by a central open square containing a __________, the main city well, and the tombs of saints.

Mosque

The Water Margin (or All Men Are Brothers) is a representative example of a:

Multiauthored adventure novel

Among the scurrilous accusations made against Empress Wu was that she had:

Murdered her child in her quest to achieve political power.

Toward the first half of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman sultans equipped their Janissaries with cannons and _________.

Muskets

Ghana came to resemble the states on the Swahili coast and their hinterlands, where only the rulers and merchants were ____________.

Muslims

Around 900, migrants speaking the language __________ arrived in the vicinity of the collapsed Teotihuacán.

Nahuatl

Entry into the Tang government's bureaucratic service was possible only after:

Passing a series of examinations.

The East and West African expansion of trade under the impact of Islam may have also indirectly led to a __________ in the interior of Africa.

Population increase

The development of Sikhism resulted, in great measure, from the:

Presence of refugees from Mongol raids in the Muslim sultanates.

A ruling in the mid-800s by an Egyptian Muslim judge allowed Nubian Muslims to acquire __________.

Private Property

The religious heritage of the Solomonids still lives on in Ethiopia, and among the _________, who form a small minority in Jamaica and are associated with Bob Marley.

Rastafarians

Among the golden objects found among the items of the royal dynasty of Mapungubwe, signifying the power and magic of the kings, was a ____________.

Rhinoceros

In the mid-1400s, Ethiopian kings adopted a Christianized version of _______________ law, The Law of the Kings (Fetha Nagast) from the Egyptian Copts.

Roman

Stationary theaters with stages, main floors, balconies, and boxes appeared in the main cities of Spain during the ________ century.

Sixteenth

The final provinces added to the Inca empire, in the __________ century, were in northern Ecuador as well as on the eastern slopes of the Andes.

Sixteenth

The Pueblo cultures, in today's ____________ were based on sophisticated irrigated farming systems and are known for their distinctive painted pottery styles.

Southwestern United States

Introduced from China by the Zen monk Eisai (1141-1215), ___________ in Japan became widely adopted as an aid to discipline and meditation among monks in the twelfth century.

Tea drinking

Southeast Asia is crossed by several major river systems, including all of the following except:

Tonkin

Under Süleyman "the Magnificent" most of the Janissaries were stationed in barracks in and near the _____________.

Topkapi Palace

Nubian kingdoms prospered in large part as the result of the rapid spread of the animal-driven ________ invented in Egypt in the first century CE.

Waterwheel

After his visit to Harsha's kingdom, Xuan Zang pronounced it:

Well run, wealthy, and justly administered.

The Amnokkang, better known as the _________ River, and Kangnam Mountains form the present dividing line between the Korean peninsula and Manchuria.

Yalu

Many small rivers open into the Indian Ocean, but only the _________ River in the south was large enough to allow longer-range water traffic and the building of inland towns.

Zambezi

The term "Ainu" means:

Hairy ones

In the 15th century, more than ______ of the people in the Mexican Basic lived in cities like Tenochtitlán.

Half

By the fall of the _________ dynasty in 220 CE, we have the earliest remnant examples of wood-block printing.

Han

"Auto-da-fé" means "act of faith" in the ___________ language.

Portugese